Transcript
Scott Anderson: Paul, you talk about the fact that one of the dangers in ministry or one of the indicators that maybe this blindness is encroaching on us is when our we cease to have a relationship, that faith just becomes an objectified, sort of, an act. It's our job, it's our there somewhere, rather than a communion with God.
The Labyrinthine Logic of Scripture
Paul Tripp: Yes, I think one of the places where that functions and I think, in ways in everyone in ministry, is that the labyrinthine logic of scripture is so gorgeous, so engaging. The thought theology is so expansive and mind-boggling that I can become a person who is much more excited about this world of ideas that I get to be in the middle of and the communicator of than I am with loving worship of Almighty God and self-sacrificing love of the people of his church. I'm not motivated by love anymore. It's not this me being this bridge of a representative love of God and bringing the love of God to God's people. I just love the ideas.
And, in fact, there are times when I'm mad that I get the phone call that takes me away from sort of contemplating and reforming and repacking these ideas because I got to deal with people. Or that my celebration is theological, in a way that's not theology driving me to the foot of this glorious God. It's theology that's driving me to theology that's driving me to theology that's driving me to theology. Theology is never an end in itself. It's a means to an end and the end is to take human beings who worship themselves or other things, and to make them true worshipers of God.
